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Book Reviews NIN 4 Also available online – www.brill.nl BOOK REVIEWS Lynn Meskell, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt , Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2002. 238 pp. $18.95 paperback, ISBN 0-691-12058-7; $45 hardback, 0-691-00448-X. I read Lynn Meskell’s Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt with the enthu- siasm, but also with some of the criticism and ambivalence, that she herself brings to the topic. Meskell brings well-known material into fas- cinating new juxtapositions. She shows, very successfully, how the Egyptian material often elides our western categories and contradicts our assumptions about ancient life and life in ancient Egypt in particular, and she cel- ebrates sensuous life in ancient Egypt with such panache that I felt quite wistful to have missed out on it. This book can be seen as the culmination of much of Meskell’s ear- lier work, and as a practical demonstration of the sort of results one might obtain by applying third wave feminist theory, current anthro- pological and sociological thought, and post-processual archaeology to ancient Egypt. Meskell focusses on the village of Deir el-Medîna, home to the craftsmen who built and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the New Kingdom. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NIN Brill

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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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NIN 4 Also available online – www.brill.nl BOOK REVIEWS Lynn Meskell, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt , Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2002. 238 pp. $18.95 paperback, ISBN 0-691-12058-7; $45 hardback, 0-691-00448-X. I read Lynn Meskell’s Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt with the enthu- siasm, but also with some of the criticism and ambivalence, that she herself brings to the topic. Meskell brings well-known material into fas- cinating new juxtapositions. She shows, very successfully, how the Egyptian material often elides our western categories and contradicts our assumptions about ancient life and life in ancient Egypt in particular, and she cel- ebrates sensuous life in ancient Egypt with such panache that I felt quite wistful to have missed out on it. This book can be seen as the culmination of much of Meskell’s ear- lier work, and as a practical demonstration of the sort of results one might obtain by applying third wave feminist theory, current anthro- pological and sociological thought, and post-processual archaeology to ancient Egypt. Meskell focusses on the village of Deir el-Medîna, home to the craftsmen who built and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the New Kingdom.

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